Improvement in manure-distributers



NrTED STATES PATENT i NATHAN TOMLINSON, OF CISNE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MANURE-DISTRIBUTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,476, dated February 2, 1875; application tiled October 10, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NATHAN ToMLINsoN, of Cisne, in the county of Wayne and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Manure-Distributers; and I do hereby declare that the followin gis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawing is a representation ot a vertical longitudinal section of my manure-distributer, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

My invention has relation to means for hauling manure and distributing the same in the tield; and it consists in combining, with a twowheel carriage, a removable hopper-shaped body, sliding bottom boards therefor, and revolving spurred shafts, as will be understood from the following description.

In the annexed drawings, A designates a rectangular cart-frame, on which is removably applied a hopper-shaped body, B,the lower aring portions, B' B', of which are permanently secured in the frame A. D D designate transporting-wheels, one of which is secured rigidly on the axle E, and the other turns loosely on this axle. The axle E and a transverse shaft, F, are arranged in the same plane, and provided with spurs a b, which are adjusted so that the spurs a play between the spurs b. The spurs a and b play between spurs c, which are fixed in the lower edges of the inclined portions B' B'. C G designate two boards, which constitute the bottom of the body B B', and which are free to slide, one forward and the other backward. G G designate levers, which are pivoted at e e to the upper edges ofthe flaring portions of the body B, and connected by links f f to the movable bottom-boards C (l. The letter O designates the draft-pole, which may be made removable.

By closing the bottomboards C C, the body B will carry manure without scattering it, and by separating these 'boards more or less the manure will be scattered, and at the same time disintegrated, by the revolving spikes a b andthe tixed spikes c.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. Ihe inclined hopper sides B' B', provided with projections o at their lower ends, in cornbination with the spurred shafts E and F, revolving in opposite directions, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. y

2. Theinclined hopper sides B' B', provided with spurs c at their lower ends, in combination with the sliding bottom-boards G C, levers G G, axle E, provided with spurs a, and shaft E, provided with spurs b, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. Y

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my naine in the presence of two witnesses.

NATHAN TOMLINSON.

Witnesses:

J AMEs M. HILL, GEORGE H. MILLER.

FFICE. 

